Happy Birthday: Kathy Burke, 47

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In September Kathy Burke returns to the screen in the John le Carré
thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, having devoted most of the
past decade to writing and directing. She said that she would welcome life
on a desert island: “I spend 90 per cent of my time on my own and that’s how
I like it.” In 1997 she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film
Festival for her portrayal of a battered wife in Nil By Mouth.
Earlier TV success came as the difficult teenager Perry in Harry Enfield
and Chums. RGT